Assistant Manager

Job Summary

• Job holder is responsible for all the activities of Mumbai Operations Unit OPS CPBB - OB
• Job holder is accountable to maintain constant vigil over checks and controls in specific areas including Process system, regulatory guidelines, Internal policies etc and bring out exceptions / gaps in a timely manner in order to remediate and address root causes.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Understand and implement goals and vision in unit /area to fit in to overall ITO/country plans. Identify and shares best practices with Regional Head with a view to implementing standardized, simplified and automated processes – capturing data once, addressing cause not effect, minimizing nonvalue-added and duplicated activities, reducing TAT, maximizing paperless processing & deskilling of activities

Business

• Strong individual engagement with team members
• Effective delegation capabilities which ensures development of subordinates
• Effectively manage PIPs of underperformers.
• Effectively manage team to control attrition to minimum level

Processes

• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and remove process “bottle necks”. Assess process health (through key metrics) & identify broken processes that requires redesign. Uses customer/stakeholders feedback to continuously re  engineer processes. Successfully implements best practices into own team and migrate them to other teams/ units Work with multiple teams ( Technology and Operations) to arrive at the end state process 

People & Talent

• Lead a team of Operations Officers (including recruiting, motivating and coaching employees to deliver goals) Strong individual engagement with team members        
• Effective delegation capabilities which ensures development of subordinates                                                    
• Effectively manage improvement of underperformers.                                                                                          
• Effectively manage team to control attrition to minimum level

Risk Management

• Ensure prompt and early escalation of both existing and potential risk issues                                                    
• Facilitates “meaningful “ root cause analysis ( not just categorizing errors) and implements                          
• Awareness and Respect of local regulations, group and business policies, business standard                        
• Manage and have effective control on the Sundry, Suspense and GL accounts with respect to outstanding entries
• Ensure no surprise culture: no failed Audit and to achieve at least satisfactory rating in all groups / external / internal audit / service quality audits.

Governance

• Comply with rules and regulations and country policies with respect to liability operations and ensure adequate controls measures are in place for regular monitoring of the same.
• Review GDOI/GPS/DOI related to Liabilities process and align country processes with the same and raise dispensations wherever required.          

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the Pune / Indore Operations team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] 
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Participate in customer/stakeholder’s meeting, help structure deals and review/attain/benchmark service standards  
• Engage with stakeholders to understand and fulfil the needs of internal and external clients.

Skills and Experience

• Manage Conduct
• Manage Risk
• Manage People

Qualifications

• Graduate from any stream
• 2-3 working years experience as a team leader in operations section 
• preferred with specialisation in the unit being deployed

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.